Clinical Pharmacist: Prescriber & Medicines Optimization

NHS Jobs; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is recruiting a Clinical Pharmacist to join a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role providing expert medicines knowledge for clinical care. The post involves managing chronic conditions, conducting medication reviews, and contributing to antimicrobial stewardship and services.

You will develop clinical supervision with a GP supervisor and support integration with wider health and social care teams.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care

Job description

NHS Jobs is recruiting a Clinical Pharmacist to join a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role providing expert medicines knowledge for clinical care. The post involves managing chronic conditions, conducting medication reviews, and contributing to antimicrobial stewardship and services.

You will develop clinical supervision with a GP supervisor and support integration with wider health and social care teams.